This Workshop will explore existing technologies and new approaches for
Digital Rights Management on the Web. Digital Rights Management (DRM) refers
to techniques for describing and perhaps enforcing copyrights associated with
Web resources. Multiple initiatives on national and international levels focus
on protection of online content, yet trade, management, tracking and
evolvability of such content have not been addressed in a comprehensive, open
standards environment. Recent experiences with copyright of Web-based content
show tension in both business models (Napster, MP3) and today's technology
approaches (SDMI). New product categories such as eBooks also demonstrate the
need for an approach to DRM that accommodates the diverse needs of content
providers, distributors, artists, and users. Widely deployed Digital Rights
Management standards on the Web might provide an opportunity to go one step
further on the way to an Information Society by enabling the emergence of a
variety of new business and social models for the dissemination and marketing
of information products. This Workshop will explore the needs of these various
communities, technologies that might address those needs, and ways in which
the unique aspects of Web architecture determine what solutions may be
appropriate and successful.

Various rights management approaches will have differential impact on
individual components in the value chain, from users to content providers to
distributors. At the Workshop we will explore the challenge of implementing
DRM functionality that does not inappropriately restricting fair use and fair
dealing rights protected in national and international copyright laws.

A key impact of DRM will be the substantial increase in re-use of Web
content. Increasingly pervasive access to Web is changing the nature of
distribution of digital media from a passive one-way flow (from publisher to
the consumer) to a much more interactive cycle where creations are re-used,
combined and extended in ever-expanding cycles. At all stages, the rights need
to be managed and honored.

The goal of this workshop is to discuss and address DRM issues across
multiple sectors and communities to enable the Web to deliver trusted rights
management services. The intent is to find and highlight expressions,
processes and methods for DRM applications that could be subject of a W3C
Activity Proposal.

The Workshop will address the management of any rights on intangible goods,
that can be delivered, shipped or otherwise transported over digital networks,
such as electronic books and images. The Workshop will not address rights on
tangible goods, real estate, etc., or goods that can not be transported over
HTTP.

The participants will discuss and debate the merits of a W3C Activity to
investigate and propose DRM specifications to add value and services to the
Web community in an open and extensible manner. Likely participants would be
drawn from the following communities: publishers, creators/authors,
content/data service providers, online trading services, trusted third
parties, stakeholders from the library-, and other user communities.

DRM raises a mixture of technical, social, business and legal issues. The
Workshop will concentrate on addressing the technical issues with DRM, though
we will also seek background on legal and social considerations that effect
the technical requirements of DRM for the Web. The technical issues
include:

DRM architectures

Trading protocols

Protection and security mechanisms

DRM languages (semantics and encoding)

Interoperability

Accessibility

The discussion of DRM languages will include consideration of candidates
for standard vocabularies for the expression of terms and conditions over
digital assets. In DRM languages, authors, distributors and other
intermediaries may express permissible usages for various digital asset
manifestations, payment terms, tracking and security. We expect to discuss how
DRM languages might reuse existing W3C standards (RDF, XML Signature,
Micropayments, P3P).

Background Material from W3C

Participants in this workshop should be familiar with the following W3C
technologies:

It has a broad spectrum of participants from industry, research, user,
and academia

The workshop deliverables are produced successfully

Future work in this area will depend on whether this workshop identifies
areas in which W3C can make a unique contribution, whether through standards
development and/or liaison with other organizations.

There will be a limit of 100 participants. Any employee of a W3C Member
organization may participate. However, to ensure maximum diversity among
participants, the number of participants per organization is initially
limited to one.

In addition to W3C Members, there will be a number of invited experts.
Formal invitation will be made by the workshop chairs. Suggestions for
invitations must be presented to the chairs no later than 20 December
2000.

There will be no participation fee.

Position papers are required to participate at this workshop.
Each organization wishing to participate must submit a position paper
explaining their interest in the workshop no later 22 December 2000. See
the Position Papers section of this document.

To attend the workshop, you must register by filling out the registration
form no later than 12 January 2001. Registration is
required, even for invited speakers, experts and W3C staff!

To facilitate workshop planning, anyone interested in participating should
send a statement of interest to www-drm@w3.org stating:

that somebody from your organization will attend the workshop

who will attend

when your position paper will be ready (preferrably with an
abstract)

any experts that you think could be invited

THIS DOES NOT REPLACE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION ! For official
registration, please use the registration
form.

Position papers are the basis for the discussion at the workshop. A
position paper is usually short, around 1 to 5 pages (there is a maximum of
five pages)Â and summarizes:

What are the needs of your company/organization in the field of DRM that
you would like to have addressed in the workshop?

What are your general expectations on the final outputs of the
workshop?

What are your potential contributions to the discussion, related ideas,
and suggested solutions? A well-defined technical contribution may
accompany the position paper as an appendix.

Position papers will be published on the public Web pages of the workshop,
so position papers and slides of presentations must be available for public
dissemination. Submitting a position paper comprises a default recognition of
these terms for publication.Â Allowed formats are HTML/XHTML or ASCII. Papers
in any other formats will be returned, with a request for correct formatting.
Good examples of position papers can be seen in the QL'98 workshop.

The Program Committee may ask the authors of particularly salient position
papers to explicitly present their position at the workshop to foster
discussion. Presenters will also make the slides of the presentation available
on the workshop Web site.

Position papers must be submitted via email to the Workshop
Chairs(<rigo@w3.org> and <renato@iprsystems.com>) no later
than 22 December 2000.

The Workshop Agenda will be developed by a Program Committee. The Committee
will include Rigo Wenning (W3C), Renato Iannella (IPR Systems), Daniel
Weitzner (W3C), and Norman Paskin (DOI Foundation), John Erickson
(Hewlett-Packard), Chuck Myers (Adobe), Maximilian Herberger (University of
Saarland).

Accommodation

Here are some suggested hotels for your stay during the workshop. You are
responsible for your own hotel bookings. INRIA have an agreement with the
following hotels, which will give a discount:

Hotel Josse ***

8, bd James Wyllie
06600 Antibes-Juan les Pins

Tel : +33 (0)4 92 93 38 38
Fax : +33 (0)4 92 93 38 39

This Hotel located on the seashore, in a residential district facing salis
beach, opposite of the old quarter of Antibes, is at walking distance from the
heart of town.

400 FF the single room and 495 the double (breakfast included)

This hotel is quite a distance from INRIA, so you will have to take a taxi
or have a rental car..

Hotel Mediathel ***

Route des CrÃ¨tes
06560 Valbonne

Tel. 00.33.4.92.94.68.00
Fax. 00.33.4.93.65.43.41

Located in the heart of a pine forest, the hotel is within 20 minutes of
Nice International Airport and is easily accessible by car. All bedrooms are
air-conditioned, have PC connection points, direct dial, automatic wake-up
call and minibar.

Single room at 374 FF including breakfast and tax.

Other hotels are:

Hotel Royal ***

Bd Marechal Leclerc
06600 Antibes

Tel. +33.4.93.34.03.09
Fax. +33.4.93.34.23.31

Hotel Royal seemed to please some participants to former meetings. The
hotel is semi-pension (i.e. one of the meals must be
taken at the hotel.) Facing the sea, the hotel is located within
walking distance of the heart of Antibes. It is very near the beautiful Cap
d'Antibes, and directly on the beach.

Over the period of ten weeks, this work will consume 30% of the time of one
W3C Team member for committee work, 20% of the time of one W3C Team member to
handle local organization, and 10% of the time of one W3C Team member for
managing the workshop Web site. This effort is part of the W3C Technology and Society Domain.